Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître (1894 - 1966)

Born 17 Jul 1894 in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium

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Died 20 Jun 1966 at age 71 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium

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Biography

Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître is Notable.

Belgian Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe. Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory".

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• Wikipedia contributors, "Georges Lemaître," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre&oldid=901069412 (accessed June 12, 2019).
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKC-N8MQ : 13 September 2020), Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, ; Burial, Charleroi, Arrondissement de Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium, Marcinelle Communal Cemetery; citing record ID 39553567, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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• Wikidata: Item Q12998